send-pr issues probably related to sendmail misconfiguration

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Wed May 14 01:02:25 PDT 2003


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:39:39PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote:
> sendmail config confounds me. how do I do that?
> Thanks,
> Evan
> 
> 
> >From: Jim Mock <mij at soupnazi.org>

[...]
> >The FreeBSD mail server will bounce anything that doesn't resolve.  If UW 
> >gave you a smart host (a.k.a., SMTP server) on their network to use, 
> >configure sendmail to use it.

    # cd /etc/mail
    # vi freebsd.mc

    Uncomment the line that reads:
        define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
    Replace your.isp.mail.server with your Uni's SMTP Server.

    # make
    # make install
    # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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